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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Checkerspots, Anglewings, Peacocks, and Allies
  8. Checkerspots

tribe

Checkerspots

Melitaeini

Includes
56 native 4 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Patches and Allied Checkerspots 22 native
  • Crescents 15 native
  • Checkerspots 6 native
  • Crescents 6 native
  • Tiny Checkerspots 5 native
  • Checkerspots 2 native
  • Ortilia
  • Neotropical Crescents
  • Eresia
  • Melitaea
  • Castilia

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native checkerspots All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos 114,697 observations
  • Northern Crescent Phyciodes cocyta 32,321 observations
  • Phaon Crescent Phyciodes phaon 26,015 observations
  • Silvery Checkerspot Chlosyne nycteis 22,581 observations
  • Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta 17,338 observations
  • Field Crescent Phyciodes pulchella 13,448 observations
  • Baltimore Checkerspot Euphydryas phaeton 8,817 observations
  • Northern Checkerspot Chlosyne palla 8,348 observations
  • Harris's Checkerspot Chlosyne harrisii 3,614 observations
  • Seminole Crescent Anthanassa seminole 660 observations
  • Tawny Crescent Phyciodes batesii 581 observations
  • Sierra Nevada Checkerspot Chlosyne whitneyi 77 observations

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